Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health

Terence Moore

Senior Lecturer

Telephone: +61 3 5128 1006
Facsimile: +61 3 5128 1080
Email: Terence.Moore@med.monash.edu.au

Terry came to MUDRIH from the University of Tasmania. His professional background is in Aboriginal education, mostly in Far North Queensland but also central Australia. He is currently in the final stages of his PhD which focuses on Aboriginal identity, identity politics and public policy. His thesis argues that improvements in Indigenous well-being—primarily in education, but with wider implications—depend in large part on moving beyond the simplistic understandings of Aboriginality on which much policy, program and practice are currently based. His thesis and further research in the field of indigenous health is directed at uncovering the complex causes of contemporary Aboriginal circumstances, developing more sophisticated understandings of Aboriginality and proposing public policy approaches appropriate to that complexity.